protocratic
adjective1
- In the drives of war and revolution protocratic rule broadens into sovereignty: "the domiant human power, individual or pluralistic, in a politically organized and politically independent population." — 1922
noun1
- The first stage of interglacial forest development (Pre-Temperate), characterized by light-demanding species and rapid changes in vegetation.
- Turner and West ( 1968 ) suggest that the phases of an interglacial period (cryocratic, protocratic, mesocratic , telocratic ) be considered as cenozones. — 1975